Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-07-21

to the bridge crossing the Wabash river,
where he was twice strung up, the first
time without the desired result, but the
second time his life was e~xtinguished, the
man dying at 12:45. The iSpehing was
witnessed by about 1000 people.
Merchants OF Walla walia, Wash, ON
plain to the interstate commissioner that
the freight per 100 pounds on cotton piece
goods from Chicago TO Waila Walla is
$4.70. whils to Portland. Or, $50 miles
further, it is only S1.20 per 100 pounds.
Richard Cronan, while attempting to
swim across the Niagara river, starting
IRON the "Maid of the Mist" landing was
caught in the current and carried down
through the whirlpool rapids. Crouan
came over the falls from Boston 3 week
ago.
For the Fourth Of July celebration Port
land, Oregon performed an unprecedented
fcat in the way of fireworks. II was the II
Elimination OF the summit of Mount Hood,
the tallest snow-coyered peak in Oregon.
II, T20 feet high.
Private Thomas n. Bate>~athe
Second United Stat
killed Fir TA.Ge4 -. eopher,
at the Presidio barraks,
~rranciseo. The sergeant had repri-
manded Batmane for ingintoxicated.
At Glendale, Mont, a brewery was burn
ed and also Peter Schawer, the proprietor,
who was sleeping on the second floor, al
burned to death.
At Lewiston. Ill, j. +. Logan, city mar
shall. was shot and killed by George Welde,
who was intoxicated. The murder was
without provocation. Threats OF lynch
ing Welde are made.
IT, -
ed: Observation-Disclosures A. S. DEVON,
waupaca; original, r. A. Bailey, Milwaukee;
J.. Thatcher, Baraboo: w. Strathers, Har-
mony; $. Ramsey, Reedsburg; 7. Linton,
Mount Hope; J.. MeNaughtoD, Monterey:
J.. Malloy, Mitchell; A. Cooley, Heart
Brains; j. Timms, La Crosse; j. Cranie,
Chippewa Falls; J.. J. Erlilder Neillsville;
j.. Feight, Hillsboro, c. w. Briggs, Grand
Rapids; j. Williams, Alton. Dakota-W.
H.: Gases, psadSOod; II, j kspe, yr; Dan,
sela. Minnesota-Mother r. p. Carpenter,
Sauk Rapids; original. W. Martin. Lake
City; =. Mahoney. Bloomington; 4. Nc
Grew, Chattield; J.. Beatty, Anoka; q. l..
Key, st. Peter; ], 4. Berggren, Red Wing;
j.. Graham, Mankato; I. Magill, New York
Mills; j. Gray, Frazee City; w. Dean.
Hutchinson; J.. Smith, Kilkenny; w. r.
Tubbs. Stewartville; c. Stenger, Mortified.
E. L. Harper, OF the Fidelity Natiopal
bank at Cincinhati, nov Ia jail awaiting
trial. says: He had no idea Of any disas-
ter to the bank. aud that be bought stock
tho day befoHe the closing and only two
days before pgtS30, eco Ii deposit. II the
bank e12niner had not COME there would
have beeo 20 trouble. He did not operate
insecret. and al the direetofs were respon.
sible.
Lieut.. Wilcox, convicted Of duplicating
his pay accounts and sentenced TO two
years IN the state prison, was carried to
Saltwater Mimi. under a guard OF eolored
soldiers.
Some days ago the Manitoba aud North
err Pacific railroad companies we're repre-
sented before the railroad commissioners
by Attorney Cough in the matter Of the
proposed reduction OF the passenger tariff
Of those two roads to three cents per mile.
Mr. Cough presented only part oihis testi-
mony as to why the roads should not be
required to make the reduction, and the
hearing in the ease will be completed july
IA.
George Trent alias Frank varee, elias
Gearge Smith, alizs F. y. Conehay, vent
to Chicago. He was a goodlooking Eonde.
twenty-seven years old. his last eoyno-
men was copshay, aud under IL, being an
expert operator. he obtained a situation
here With the Western Union Telegraph
company. He was arrested by the Pinksr-
ton Detective agency and taken to st.
Paul. His offences are forgery, stealing.
general eonfdenee frauds &c.
A Washington special says that the Ben
son. MINI, land officers in answer to Com
missioner Sparks, who demanded an expla-
nation OF the charge that they had illegal
Is allowed filings on indemnity lands, state
that the charge wa absolutely without
foundation; that application to enter such
lands had been made. but the land officers
would not receive them beeause they were
railroad lands.
The business for the Fargo land Office
for the quarter ending July l is as follows:
Cash sales OF acres. 9,349; fees, SI6,575.
Homestead entries, number, les; acres,
25. TAI; fees, $1,625; commissions, $1,000;
homestead proofs, IS6; acres, 10, $40; fees,
S9.23l- Timber entries, 152; acres, 49,
776; fees. $1,000; commission, S61l. Tim
Der proofs, 6; acres, go; commission. S2i.
Soldiers statements, Z; fees, $16o; com
mission, So. Total receipts, 2 2.974.5l-
At Galesburg. H., the jury in the Jim
MeCarroll case returned a verdict Of guilty
aud fixed the punishment at twelve years
in the peuitentiary. MeCarron Is the last
OF the celebrated Farmers & Mechanics
bank robbers to be punished.
Secretary Fairchild dismisses IRON the
service the head Of a treasury division,
Oscar j.. Harry who was arrested for de-
franding the government by means OF
bogus claims He confessed his guilt.
Miss Gabrielle Greeley, che oaiy surviv.
ing child of Horace Greeley, lives on her
fathers Chappaqua farm with " lady
hieads.
TAe presidsat and Mrs. Cleveland viii
visit Utica shortly.
Michigan Expects a wheat yield OF $751;
600, ue0 bushels.
Ferdinand Geldosski, iurniture mauufac-
turer, East Cambridge, has prepared a
statement; liabilities, sl0s,0 900; assets,
$4,000.
General Master Workman Powderly in
the Journal Of United Labor says: "The
moment the grain or produce gambler
stacks the cards, and that there
10 a scarcity in o certain article Of food,
and the prices 20 up in consequence, every
member should resolve that until the IN
hallowed hand OF the SPECTATOR has been
removed from the control OF the article in
question. not a pound nor an ounce more
than can be avoided, viii be purchased.
Had / the power vested in me to make the
order imperative. ! would order an eter-
nal boycott on every grain and stock gamb-
Ter in the United Stats and Canada
Qusen Victoria viii visit LORD Salisbury
at Hatfield house in Heriordshire on the
18th inst.
Father Francis Dent OF Little Valley, N.
T., bas been placed in the penitentiary to
serve seven months for criminal libel. He
Issued a circular charging Father Ham,
nell, another priest with ~wronging and
numbering one Maggie Bauer.
Tba contributions n~n~on<fl, - Tr&aL
adopted its constitution. The pIanks re-
garding bigamy. polygamy. representation
for the minority and separation OF church
and state were adopted, The vote of the
people will be taken in August. Only those
who have taken the test oath" can vote
on the fertilization.
Hidalgo outruns dry Monolope in the
Long Branch handicap by the shortest
OF heads and Hanover wins S11, 900 at q
gallop-
Geqtre Gould, the Oldest son Of Jay
Gould. Is seriously III with Intermittent
hyer.
Considerable work Is being done at the
present time by way OF extending different
railroads in the Northwest. The track
layers on the Montana extension OF the
Manitoba have reached Popular river.
2I0 miles west OF Minot. For 230 miles
vest OF this point. Is far as Fort Assina-
boine, a continual lire of graders are at
work. and the grade is practically com
pleated to that point. which Is 40 miles
west OF Miaot, and within los miles of the
Great Falls OF the Missouri.
Commander Charles lie Strange, OF the
British dispatch boat Surprise, who mys-
terionsly disappeared from MarseilEes, is
believed TO be safe IN Brussels.
Charles Henry Burggemann, o wei known
Ger2an publicist is dead, aged Seventy
i've years.
At IQdiapapolis. Ind, Simeon Coy, a To-
cal polaifal boss, aBd one oil the men
indicted BY the federal grasd Jury IN Com
ncction Vith the taRy sheet frauds at the
late eleeAon, was recently Surrendered by
his bondsmen and placed inisil.
At Lanse, Mich. William Il. Hendricks
committed Suicide BY shooting. He was